Wholehearted Commitment

The Lord is our God, the Lord alone. And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength. And you must commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these commands that I am giving you today. Repeat them again and again to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up. Tie them to your hands and wear them on your forehead as reminders. Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
Deuteronomy 6:4b-9 NLT

We just love it when God does something for us that we've asked and believed Him for, don't we? Most of us will tell anyone who will stand still long enough to listen to us testify about it, right? We've all had opportunities to testify of God's mercy and grace. It's great, isn't it? And usually, it primes the heart pump of the hearers to pour out just such an occasion in their life where God came through. Once we get rolling on it, we cannot possibly tell ALL that He has done in one setting! However, we can have ample opportunity to share one at a time. The question is, do we?

And how about when we get those opportunities to trust Him that we didn't ask for? You know what I mean... when we've lost a job, or get a medical diagnosis we weren't ever expecting, or have material need, etc. What do we do then? Are we still committed wholeheartedly to testify of the goodness of God or do we somehow cast a little blame on Him? Do we state with emphatic faith what God will do, based on His whole Word, or do we look to our neighbors and friends to nurse, curse and rehearse the situation? Did God change? No. Emphatically No.

If we look for ways to bless His holy Name, we won't have to look far to see all that He's doing in our lives. God is wholeheartedly committed to us. He sent His sinless Son to die on the Cross to pay the price for our sins. Mine. Yours. So we could be One with Him. And God raised Him from the dead. And now that same power that raised our Lord from the grave lives inside of us. Undivided. Wholeheartedly.

Prayer:

Father,
        Forgive us for those times we neglect to acknowledge Your blessings in our lives. Help us to see stuff as just stuff. Father, we commit to wholeheartedly acknowledge You in all our ways. In Jesus' Name we pray. Amen